Unboxing Wd Elements Portable Hard Drive And Reformatting For Mac

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Review: Western Digital My Passport 2TB Portable External Hard Drive A little while ago I needed a new external hard drive to store my growing photo library. Most of the external hard drive that I have are Western Digital drives. The one time I got a Seagate drive, it died on me after one year of mild use! So no more Seagate for me. I wanted a hard drive that is portable, because there are times that I might want to bring my photo library with me when I travel.

The seems to fit the bill. I have a Western Digital My Passport 1TB that I use for Time Machine backup and it’s still working fine after several years of use.

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The is available in 6 different colours. It was a toss-up between white and red for me. In the end, I decided to go with a more funky colour – red. The hard drive comes in a box like this.

Unboxing Wd Elements Portable Hard Drive And Reformatting For Mac Windows 10

Inside the box are the portable hard drive, a cable of matching colour, a warranty card and a manual of some sort. Both the portable hard drive and the cable are wrapped in plastic. It supports USB 3.0 and is compatible with USB 2.0. When compared side by side, the is a little bigger and thicker than my old My Passport drive. I love the colour of the new hard drive. The silver one looks so boring now!

Like most portable hard drives, this one comes with some backup and encryption software that I don’t need/want. Whenever I get a new hard drive, the first thing I do is to format it and wipe it clean. Since I’m a Mac person, I needed it to be in OS X Extended (Journaled) format. For some reason, the format process ended with this message: “MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation.” What?! This error has something to do with the size of the partition. After some digging (googling), I found.

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I followed the suggestion by user Apple9321 and bingo! Performance-wise the new is fine. I copied about 470GB of photos from one My Passport hard drive (the previous version) to the new one.

The whole process took around 7 hours. When I bought the silver My Passport, I also bought a protective case for it. Rob galbraith dpi: photo mechanic 2.0r13 for mac. The hard drive fits perfectly in the case.

I can put the new one in the case, but the problem is I can’t close the lid because the new drive is a bit thicker than the silver one. I guess I’ll have to find a case for the new drive. So far I really like the latest edition of the.

Unboxing Wd Elements Portable Hard Drive And Reformatting For Mac Pro

It seems to be a bit faster than the previous version. Hopefully it’ll be as reliable as my other hard drives from the same line.